Check out the animated video. It explains how Nevada is planning to handle marijuana. It makes a lot of sense. Explore the debates—as usual, opponents of marijuana legalization cannot argue successfully using facts and truth, so they simply lie. Weird. Oh, and they break the law by having public officials spend taxpayer money fighting the initiative. That’s illegal. (Video requires broadband and sound.)

UPDATE: I just received this via email:

MPP’s opponents in Nevada might go to jail

On Tuesday, between 40 and 50 supporters of the Marijuana Policy Project’s initiative campaign in Nevada attended a county commission meeting in Las Vegas to protest the commission’s nonbinding resolution opposing MPP’s initiative. MPP Campaign Manager Neal Levine made a statement before the commission, explaining, “According to Nevada Revised Statutes 281.554, government officials and employees are prohibited from expending public funds, time, or resources to oppose or support a ballot question. This rule applies to the Clark County Commission.” You can watch the confrontation here.

Would you please consider donating the maximum amount that you can, so that we can afford to continue fighting to pass our initiative — and fighting our opponents — everywhere, and every day, until Election Day?

Despite the clear legal precedent — a Nevada Supreme Court decision in 2002 and a Nevada attorney general’s opinion in 2004 — that prevents public officials from weighing in on ballot questions, the commission’s lawyer opined that the resolution debate could proceed. The commission then voted unanimously to oppose MPP’s initiative, which would tax and regulate marijuana similarly to alcohol.

Following the commission’s vote, the campaign filed a formal complaint with the state’s attorney general, asking him to prosecute the county commissioners and other public officials — like Clark County Sheriff Bill Young, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Detective Todd Raybuck, and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Lieutenant Stan Olsen — who have spent taxpayer money to oppose MPP’s initiative, which will be on the November 7 ballot. (Watch a short, 90-second animation video explaining the initiative here.)

The possibility of sending the county commissioners, sheriffs, and police to jail for illegally campaigning while on the public dime has generated a tremendous amount of news coverage by diverse media outlets, including the ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC television stations in Las Vegas; the NBC and CBS television stations in Reno; and the Associated Press, the Las Vegas Sun, and the Las Vegas Review-Journal. You can view the ongoing media coverage of our campaign’s fight for fairness here.

We are doing everything we possibly can to ensure that Nevada voters pass our ballot initiative on November 7, but we need your help to continue to face growing (and often illegal) resistance by our opponents as Election Day draws near. Thank you in advance for anything you can give or do.

Sincerely,

Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.

P.S. As I’ve mentioned in previous alerts, a major philanthropist has committed to match the first $3.5 million that MPP can raise from the rest of the planet in 2006. This means that your donation today will be doubled.